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The Railway Protection Force (RPF) rescued 2 runaway children travelling connected Train No. 17309 (Yeshwantpur-Vasco Da Gama Express) connected Sunday.
A connection from the RPF, Mysuru Railway Division, stated that the RPF unit successful Arsikere, acting upon accusation received from the Divisional Security Control Room successful Mysuru, swung into enactment and recovered 2 children travelling successful manager S8.
“During enquiry, the children, aged 11 and 12, revealed that they were students residing successful a schoolhouse hostel astatine Tumakuru. They stated that they had near the schoolhouse premises without support and boarded a bid intending to question towards Hubballi, arsenic their classmates had gone location for holidays portion their parents had not travel to instrumentality them home,” said the connection from Railways.
Following owed procedures, some children were safely handed implicit to the District Child Protection Unit/Child Helpline, Hassan (Arsikere Unit), nether due acknowledgement successful the beingness of railway officials for further care, counselling, and rehabilitation, the connection said.
“The punctual enactment of RPF unit ensured the information and extortion of the children and prevented them from being exposed to imaginable risks during unsupervised travel,” said the statement.
